by Richard A. Hendricks | Sep 4, 2021 | Health News
Parents have a reason to be concerned. After months of declining cases, the virus is finding the unvaccinated. Children have largely been spared the worst of Covid-19 — hospitalizations and deaths are more rare for children than for adults — although...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Sep 2, 2021 | Health News
That’s three days before the September 20 target date to start offering booster doses announced by the White House last month. “The administration recently announced a plan to prepare for additional COVID-19 vaccine doses, or ‘boosters,’ this...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Aug 27, 2021 | Health News
People who received a booster six to eight months after their initial J&J shots saw antibodies increase nine-fold higher than 28 days after the first shot, Johnson & Johnson said. The data comes from two Phase 2 studies conducted in the United States and...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Aug 25, 2021 | Health News
“The vaccine also continues to be available under emergency use authorization (EUA), including for individuals 12 through 15 years of age and for the administration of a third dose in certain immunocompromised individuals,” according to the FDA. Out of...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Aug 18, 2021 | Health News
It started last week, when the the the US Food and Drug Administration and US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended an additional dose for certain immunocompromised people who had been given the Moderna or Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines. But nearly 14...